Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

All objective pleasure in the long run must bring pain, because of the fact of change or death.

The ability to forget the past enables people to free themselves gradually from the pain they once suffered; but it also often makes them repeat the mistakes of their predecessors.

Great pleasures are much less frequent than great pains.

All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain or languor; it is like spending this year part of the next year's revenue.

Why do we have such a finite capacity for pleasure but an infinite one for pain?

If there is no enjoyment in this world, there would not be so much suffering. As suffering really is the frustration of our attempts to enjoy.

What I secretly longed for was to disentangle myself of all those lives which had woven themselves into the pattern of my own life and were making my destiny a part of theirs. To shake myself free of these accumulating experiences which were mine only by force of inertia required a violent effort. Now and then I lunged and tore at the net, but only to become more enmeshed. My liberation seemed to involve pain and suffering to those near and dear to me. Every move I made for my own private good brought about reproach and condemnation. I was a traitor a thousand times over.

In 'The Republic' he [Plato] states that the enjoyment of food is not a true pleasure because the purpose of eating is to relieve pain - hunger.

Whisky, I find, helps clarity of thought. And reduces pain. It has the additional virtue of making you drunk or, if taken in sufficient quantity, very drunk.

Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.

Sleep, ignorant of pain, sleep, ignorant of grief, may you come to us blowing softly, kindly, kindly come king.

Lately I’d begun carrying pain amulets in my bag, like some people have breath mints.

I feel that if entertainment is that important, the media, then it's my duty, not only to mankind but to God, to fulfill the promise that I carry on this work. If someone, for instance, can forget their pains and their ills and their strife by watching any performer then I think this work is worthwhile.

In the last stages of a final illness, we need only the absence of pain and the presence of family.

When we behold the face of God, all memories of pain and suffering will vanish. Our souls shall be totally healed.

Pain results from a judgment you have made about a thing. Remove the judgment and the pain disappears.

I run angry. Football allows me to take out some of my pain on the field.

The victim should have the right to end his life, if he wants. But I think it would be a great mistake. However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do, and succeed at. While there's life, there is hope.

Poetry, at least the kind I write, is written out of immediate need; it is written out of pain, joy, and experience too great to be borne until it is ordered into words. And then it is written to be shared.

The priority of any addict is to anaesthetise the pain of living to ease the passage of day with some purchased relief.

Survivors lived with their mistakes.

Past mistakes cannot create a present pain; no mistake in life has the power to make us ache any more than the echo of someone crying can shed tears.

Where lowland is, that's where water goes. All medicine wants is pain to cure.

Violent pleasures which reach the soul through the body are generally of this sort-they are reliefs of pain.